Risk management is not enough: a conceptual model for resilience and adaptation-based vulnerability assessments

Environment Systems and Decisions

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-228

  Sikula, Nicole R ^a   Mancillas, James W ^a   Linkov, Igor ^b   McDonagh, John A ^a  

^a JBSA Fort Sam Houston ^*  (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuity of operations; Disaster response and recovery; Disruption; Ecology; Engineering; Resilience; Risk; Socio ecological system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; ENGINEERING; FEDERAL SYSTEM; MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930865484     PISSN: 21945403     EISSN: 21945411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-015-9552-7     Document Type: Article

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